Dig it daddy-o

Manhattan's all-too-adorable West
Village is no stranger to the big screen (see: every
rom-com ever made;Sex and the City), but
there's something different about the Coen brothers setting their
sights on the neighbourhood for their next piece of Oscar
bait,Inside Llewyn
Davis.

The story of a folk singer living in the village in
1961, the film took Garrett Hedlund, Justin Timberlake and Carey
Mulligan back to a more bohemian NYC, when starving artists such as Davis (and Bob Dylan and
Allen Ginsberg) struggled to get gigs at hangouts including the
Gaslight Café.

It says something about today's Manhattan that the
once-venerated venue is now a cocktail bar, 116,
serving drinks such as chipotle-infused tequila devised by Balthazar's bartender.

But nostalgists can't decry just-opened The
Marlton (www.marltonhotel.com; doubles from about £175),
a 107-room beat generation favourite that has been restyled by the
man behind The Bowery Hotel.

The original wood floors and marble bathrooms
recall a bygone groove and evoke a Parisianhôtel
particulier.